Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White Tie & Tails. That was Ivan Jadan's big break. In the audience was Michel Kachouk, manager of such illustrious Russian musicians as Feodor Chaliapin and Serge Koussevitzky. Jadan's family found a home with friends in New Orleans and Impresario Kachouk set out to see what he could do to start Jadan on a new-career...
Last week, in white tie & tails bought with a loan arranged, by Impresario Kachouk, Tenor Jadan stood confidently before the piano on the stage of Manhattan's Town Hall to sing his first recital in eight years. His tenor was a little rusty, and he had not yet worked back to his former full-voiced power. But he sang the songs of Mozart, Beethoven, Wolf, Verdi with lyrical warmth and expressiveness that reminded some of Caruso indeed. He also sang the songs of Tchaikovsky, Glinka and other Russians and he reduced a house filled largely with Russian expatriates...
Died. Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield, 60, waggish Chicago hotelman (the two Ambassadors, the Sherman) and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn); of a heart ailment; in Chicago. Hotelman Byfield once defined the perfect hotelman as the "master of opposites. He needs to be a greeter and a bouncer, pious but ribald . . . noted as a connoisseur and competent as a plumber...